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Series ending

After 27 parts, this series is now coming to an end.

The BASH series is going to be given a new home. In order to facilitate this, it is being re-written and will form part of a larger project.

As this is now taking up my time, it makes sense to end the and focus on the new format that it will be presented in. I am also getting some help from a few very capable young hackers with this.

Nevertheless, the new format will look better and be more useful than a video and a list of commands that are just a summary of the video.

In other news, the Tuxiversity forum and website (below) are also going to be overhauled.

If you wish to ask questions about the current series, I am available via Internet Relay Chat (zleap), as are other members of the team behind this project.

To chat on IRC, please click the link below, enter a new nickname and press start. You should be then taken to the chatroom.

Links

• IRC Chat
• Tuxiversity Forum

Tags

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Recent events, relating to the ownership of Freenode IRC network, has resulted in a mass exodus, to a new network, LiberaChat. [1]

REFERENCES AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION

1 LiberaChat

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This years Emacs Conference [1] took place on the weekend of 28th and 29th November. This is the online conference aimed at users of the stalwart text editor which is described as “An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor” [2]

Emacsconf this year had users from all different backgrounds, who use Emacs for a range of applications from basic text editing, writing documents in LaTeX, HTML or Markdown. Emacs is also popular with programmers and developers working on their latest project(s), but can also handle reading / writing email, chat, debugging software, and also has a built in calender and organiser to help you keep track of what you are doing. All this from a single interface.

Emacs is free software, and released under the GNU license, so has the usual 4 freedoms of use, study, share and modify. The more accurate name is therefore GNU / Emacs.

Talks this year were presented with Big Blue button [5] and live streamed with gstreamer [4] and other tools. This combination worked really well.

Talks were either longer with time for questions and answers or shorter lightning talks on quick subjects. Attendees could add their questions to a collaborative text pad, that everyone had access to. There was a big social presence using IRC (chat) [3] which was active during the conference.

Topics included development updates, a new users viewpoint, writing novels, Music and quite a few on Org Mode which is used for creating task lists and much more. Emacs, has a steep learning curve, but is very powerful and flexible to use. I am still learning the basics.

All talks are available to view here

1. https://emacsconf.org/
2. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
3. https://webchat.freenode.net/ #emacsconf
4. https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
5. https://bigbluebutton.org/

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Hexchat is a GUI client for Internet Relay Chat, this is still very popular despite it's age.

This video shows how to connect to the Freenode network but does not cover how to set your account up.

Once you have chosen a nickname and connected you should register your nickname with nickserv, then ID.

Further information on this can be found in the freenode knowedge base

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Following EmacsConf 2020, all the talk videos have been processed and are now up to watch here.

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I have been working on some more projects around IRC chat bots. I decided to try and integrate a Magic 8 ball project so that an IRC bot would give a random response, chosen from a pre- defined set within the code (can be changed) when the bot is sent an instruction in my IRC channel.

This project builds on some of the code covered in my Minecraft Pi bot project. Mostly the base code from the Linux Voice article.

The code is currently being tested in ##zleap on Freenode.

At the moment magic8 can be sent the following commands:-

• !umame – returns output of uname -a
• !uptime – returms system uptime
• !help – displays list of options
• !botexit – bot quits irc channel,
• !magic8 – returns random text
• !ping – returns pong (used to check the bot is working, left in for legacy
• !web – returns my own web address (this website) but can be changed
• !sdtj – returns web address for the South Devon Tech Jam

Notes

uname and uptime are Linux / Unix commands, it is therefore assumed you are running on a GNU / Linux system.

I have created a welcome message from the bot, so when it joins it says hello, also says goodbye if !botexit is sent.

Todo

• Make the code Python 3
• Add more options
• Keep it tidy

Help and Contribute

Feel free to fork the project and make improvements and further customization. Perhaps discuss further on IRC or via social media e.g Mastodon.

Resources

• Freenode
• Github Repository

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If you are using a software client it is recommended that you use SSL and connect via SASL . Information can be found here Please see screenshot below for illustration.

You will need to have registered your nickname (username) before hand, once done you can set the client to connect via SASL. Please see the Knowledge base

• Freenode knowledge base

• Freenode web chat interface

If you are going to be on IRC on a regular basis you may want to autojoin channels. (not that being IDs is a prerequisite for some channels) You can do this by right clicking on the channel list and select autojoin.

#irc,#setup,#sasl,#hexchat,#freenode

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In the screenshot below the bot has received an instruction to execute uname -a and the output is directed to the game screen.

To get all this to work you need:-

• An IRC client
• A raspberry pi which should be running Minecraft Pi and the python program, once the game has started the bot should connect.

You also need to connect to either:-

• An existing IRC server or
• Your own irc server, which can be another Raspberry Pi on the same network running an IRC server.

note You need to ask if it is Ok to connect bots to IRC servers.

In my code it is connecting to a Raspberry Pi (original model) running an IRC server.

It does work, but there is probably potential here for expansion and improvement.

Resources

• Github Repository

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Have fun.

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